Long-style-option support in ezmlm-make

Christian Lerrahn:
>> is there a reason why the -T switch of ezmlm-reject cannot be set
>> through ezmlm-make?

Bruce Guenter:
> Most likely just because nobody thought it was terribly important, and
> ezmlm-make ran out of flag letters (All of a-y are currently used).  I
> am working to help reduce this issue.

I wrote a patch to support --long-style-options in ezmlm-make.
I used this patch to implements some local ezmlmrc tricks.

With this patch:

- you can define --long-style aliases at compile time for one-letter
   combinations (examples: "--moderate-others" for '-mu' or
   "--archive-access=subscribers" for '-ag' or "--no-archive" for '-A');
   (see make_lopt.h)

- you can use long-style options in ezmlmrc (example:
   ...
   </editor#^0{allow-bcc}/>
   |<#B#>/ezmlm-reject -T '<#D#>'
   </editor#^0^{allow-bcc}/>
   |<#B#>/ezmlm-reject '<#D#>'
   ...); and you can use either '^{option}' and '{no-option}' syntax;

- you can use OR operand (example:
   ...
   </#uy|muY/>
   |<#B#>/ezmlm-clean -R '<#D#>' || exit 0
   ...);
- you can use long option value (example: using
   ezmlm-make ... --prefix=custom-prefix ...
   ...
   </prefix#fE^{prefix}/>
   [<#L#>]
   </#E{prefix}/>
   [<#$#>]
   ... writes "custom-prefix" in LISTDIR/prefix).

This patch is backward compatible -> no modification are needed in
current ezmlmrc.
This patch has not been extensively tested (usually I run
ezmlm-make once, and I never edited options in production
lists - only during tests).



-- 
Tullio Andreatta

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